Richard Svensson Stop Motion Build-Up Puppets
- Sunday, 18 April 2010 15:52
- Last Updated on Monday, 16 May 2011 04:44
- Written by Marc Spess
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Here is a series of pictures sent in to us by Richie for his latest project. All the text below except our notation is from Richie. You can contact here: richard at commersen.se or visit his site here. |
The demons armature was built by a guy in New York named Carlos Garcia. I bought it off eBay for $300. It was a regular human armature to begin with, but he changed it for no extra fee to my specific requests. |
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All those black details are made of Friendly Plastic, and added by me. What looks like a breathing mechanism is actually joints to make the breasts and belly bounce around when he´s walking. |
Don´t know yet how that will work as I´ve only done some test animations of him. Carlos armature is fantastic. It´s moves are silk-smooth and the joints are super-strong. |
Note: Friendly Plastic is a type of soft plastic you place in hot water to sculpt. Once cool it hardens.
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Also, there´s a light in the back of the head of the puppet, so the eyes light up at the flick of a hidden switch. He will be animated in a pretty dark minature temple set.
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The demon puppet is built for a home movie called "Demon of the Black Tower". I shot live-action scenes last summer against a blue screen and am now working with adding the animation and backgrounds. It´s supposed to be a pulp/sword and sorcery pastiche, very much inspired by the paintings of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The modelwork and animations will hopefully provide a Harryhausen/O´Brien touch.
....a snapshot from the blue screen sessions and a detail from the cover of the fake pulp book featured in the story.
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